Slice (disk)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In computer engineering, slices are the way BSD* based systems split a hard disk into logical divisions upon that allows one to apply operating system-specific logical formatting.

Usually, UNIX-based and UNIX-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux use partitions for splitting the disk.

However, BSD Sun-based operating systems use slices instead. Slices are sub divisions of a BSD partition.

[edit] See also

Wikibooks
Wikibooks Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of
 This computer-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/l/i/Slice_%28disk%29.html"